Last month Mozilla introduced Ubiquity, a keyboard interface for entering commands to your browser - I covered it on our sister site OStatic . One of the big features of this command line for the web is that it can be extended by anyone who cares to write a Ubiquity command - and the list of such commands has been growing. Among the things you can do that may be of web worker interest:
Check whether a site is down
Look up whois information, or ping a URL
Save information to Instaper
Create a Remember the Milk reminder
Add pages to del.icio.us
Grab info from microformats
Useful though these things are, one caution: in the current version, there are well-documented ways that a command author could smuggle malicious code into your machine. So make sure you understand the consequences if you start down the road of adding this functionality.
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